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Let me preface this by saying, I love gay people. LOVE! The middle kids’ godfather is gay, we have a gay uncle, I have a ton of friends who are both gay and lesbian. No problem with the whole gay community.
Now that we have that out of the way, let the rant begin.
I have a friend who has been in the hospital for quite some time and finally got healthy enough to go home. I decided that we would spend the night doing anything he wanted to do, it was his first opportunity to get out in over a month and I wanted him to feel special.
My friend happens to be gay, so at the end of the night, we ended up in a gay bar, which is cool. As we hung out, talked to other dudes and listened to some pretty amazing mashups, one group of guys kept on, for lack of a better term, “coming on to me.”
Being in a gay bar and being asked if you’re gay is part of “the deal,” I get that, however these guys wouldn’t give in. ”Are you gay?” “Are you sure?“ “Do you want to be?” Even when I explained that I was there to support my friend, they questioned me by saying, “If that’s what you call it!”
It finally took a very serious “fu&k off” to get these guys to stop.
My friend was very cool about the situation. He apologized and explained that type of thing happens more often than not. Again, I get the “straight dad at home, gay on Saturday” scenario, and I am a prime cut of Suburban Ham, however, why do straight guys have to go to so much effort to explain themselves?
If the shoe was on the other foot and a gay man was in a “straight bar” or as I call them “a bar” and a group of women came up to him asking the same questions over and over, badgering him to be “straight” there would be protests, Tweets, news crews, harassment charges, Savannah Guthrie and eventually a movie starting Tom Cruise and music by Rob Thomas (just sayin’).
The straight world isn’t perfect, but I think it’s safe to say that in a majority of places when a gay couple is in a restaurant or bar, they are not being badgered into being straight. They are left to eat, drink and enjoy their night.
My message to certain members of the gay community, not all – and you know who you are – Get. Over. Yourself. I understand that a gay bar is a safe haven for you to be amongst like minded people, but that doesn’t mean that you have to be such a pain in the a$$ to people who aren’t gay.
It reminds me of Packers fans, they can spout out all the stats they want forever, I will not become a Packers fan. It’s just not my thing. I appreciate Aaron Rodgers. I really like Lambeau. The fans are second to none. But I’m still not a Packers fan. I wasn’t born that way.
Seems to me that kind of aggressive, discriminatory behavior is the exact same kind of behavior that gay people have been fighting to prevent for decades?
The night I went out with my friend, I saw three guys having sex in the bathroom, learned about the benefits of using an enema before anal, the joys of a good tea bagging, saw an interesting placed piercing and was complimented on my butt. The only thing I found offensive out of anything was the aggressive behavior of the guys trying to “make me gay.”
Get married, run for office, adopt kids, move in next door…please, I am good with it all. I only have one message for you: I’m here. I am straight. And I am not going anywhere.
